Mackintosh House,
Huntarian Art Gallery
Glasgow University
1906-1914.
C.R.Mackintosh,
Whitfield Partners

The Mackintosh House at the Hunterian Art Gallery is a reconstruction of a number of rooms from Charles and Margaret Mackintosh's house at 78 Southpark Avenue where they lived from 1906-1914.

The house and contents became the property of the University of Glasgow in 1946. When the house was demolished in 1963, the contents and fitments were salvaged and reconstructed at their current location.

Mackintosh transformed the interior of his home by combining two rooms to form the drawing room and studio. The oval table and stencilled chairs were exhibited by Mackintosh in Turin during 1902 as part of a room setting titled "The Rose Boudoir". Above the fireplace in the studio is a painted gesso panel, titled "The White Rose and the Red Rose", by Margaret Mackintosh.

The Dining Room is a dark contrast to the bedroom and drawing room. The walls are papered with a pattern composed of a rose and lattice motif, with silver painted dots over coarse grey/brown paper. Wall panels and furniture are executed in dark stained woods. This view shows Mackintosh's first 'high-back' chair, which was based on a design for Miss Cranston's Tea Rooms in Argyle Street, Glasgow.

The bedroom is similar to the drawing room and studio in that Mackintosh has again removed a wall to combine two rooms into one. One section of the room contains the bed, the other a pair of wardrobes. Above the fireplace is a silver finished, decorative, metal panel by Margaret Mackintosh.

The bedroom windows, one of which is decorated by a stained glass panel, look out over the University library."